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User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap
networks IT department was not pleased, but was also easily fooled WHO, ME? Welcome to the working week, dear reader, which as always we open with a fresh instalment of “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column that offers an education in how not to do things at work.This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Roger” who told us that a decade or so back he managed teams that designed electronic shop tools and associated test kit.Roger admits he had begun to find the job a little boring, and so he sometimes found himself exploring things not strictly related to the job. REG AD Which was how he found Nmap, the popular network mapping tool. REG AD “One Friday afternoon, with apparently nothing better to do, I started using Nmap to poke around our internal network,” Roger admitted. He enjoyed
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